Pre-Solicitation_Notice_140L0624R0006_3.pdf

United States Department of the Interior

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

National Operations Center Denver Federal Center, Building 85

P.O. Box 25047 Denver, CO 80225-0047 https://www.blm.gov

Purpose of this Notice In accordance with FAR Subpart 5.2, this is a pre-solicitation notice only. This is not a Request for Proposals (RFP) and does not commit the Government to award any contracts now or in the future.

Background The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) National Operations Center (NOC) in Denver CO is seeking contractor services to support the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) agencies and U.S. Forest Service (USFS) need for mechanical hazardous fuels management services in the state of Neveda. Fuels management services and vegetation treatments have been proven as a means to mitigate wildfire hazards, to lessen catastrophic fires, lessen the threat to public and firefighter safety, and reduce damage to property. The objective of fuels management is to modify wildland vegetative fuel so that when a wildfire burns, it is less severe and can be more easily suppressed.

Project areas are reforestation areas, natural and managed stands of timber/woodlands of all ages, size, and species, shrub fields, or grass areas. Fuels shall consist of activity slash, natural fuels, live fuels, and slashed shrubs and trees. Historical fuel loadings range from less than ½ ton per acre to as high as 100 tons or more per acre. Treatments such as thinning, brushing, chipping, piling, fuel break construction, and herbicide treatments have been shown to reduce the risk of wildland fire and the severity of fires that occur. The objective of the resultant IDIQ contracts and task orders are to treat fuels present on units identified in order to improve the overall health of ecological sites, reduce fuel loading, and improve wildlife habitat and other watershed values.

Scope The DOI and USFS require Contractors with the capability to provide all the following mechanical hazardous fuel reduction services excluding Broadcast Application of Herbicide and Landscape Application of Herbicide, which are optional requirements.

1. General Mastication

2. Mechanical Thinning with Created Openings

3. Mechanical Woodland Maintenance (Mastication)

4. Piling

5. Slashing Crushing

6. Chipping

7. Chaining

8. Dixie Harrow

9. Mowing

10. Severing and Piling

11. Clear Cut and Scatter

12. Hand Cutting and Mechanical Piling (Track or Tire Mounted Swing)

13. Broadcast Application of Herbicide *OPTIONAL

14. Landscape Application of Herbicide *OPTIONAL

15. Fuel Modification Zone Construction-Timber Stands

16. Cut/Deck

* These are optional items. These items are not mandatory to propose for the mechanical services requirement.

General The BLM anticipates the issuance of commercial solicitation 140L0624R0006 as a total small business set-aside on or about May 1, 2024. The BLM further anticipates that the solicitation will result in the issuance of multiple Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contracts under which firm-fixed-price task orders will be issued.

Contracted services for the state of Nevada will meet the needs of multiple agencies within the DOI and the USFS. The BLM anticipates IDIQ contract awards will be decentralized, which will allow designated contracting officers within these agencies to solicit and award task orders under any resulting IDIQ contract award. Specific tasks requirements will be defined and funded in any subsequent task order awards.

Solicitation 140L0624R0006 will be issued in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12 Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services and FAR Part 15 Contracting by Negotiation. The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code for this acquisition is 115310, Support Activities for Forestry, Fuels Management Services. The Product Service Code (PSC) is F003 Natural Resources/Conservation - Forest-Range Fire Suppression/Presuppression. The Small Business size standard is $34.0M (per the SBA’s Table of Small Business Size Standards).

A Request for Proposal (RFP) solicitation package will be available electronically on or about May 1, 2024, at the System for Award Management (SAM) website located at www.sam.gov.

Proposals will be due 30 days after the solicitation issue date. Potential offerors are responsible for monitoring www.sam.gov for the release of the solicitation package, for any other pertinent information, and for downloading a complete copy of the solicitation package. The Government will not provide paper copies of the solicitation. To be eligible for contract award, offerors must have an active registration in SAM and have completed the online Representations and Certifications in SAM.

Award will be based on Best Value to the Government in accordance with the FAR. The Government reserves the right to award contracts to other than the lowest offeror(s).

This notice does not obligate the Government to award a contract, nor does it obligate the Government to pay for any proposal preparation costs. The primary point of contact for this action is Contract Specialist Yvette Daltorio at ydaltorio@blm.gov. All questions must be submitted in writing to Ms. Daltorio. Only written questions will be addressed.